A CD/DVD's data area is around 10,000mm^2. That's enough area for 343 of these chips at their current size. 343*128MB=42.875GB
A better arrangement would be to make a 5" (127mm) square cartridge to fit in the same stackable region as a 5" circle. That gives you 520 of these chips. 520*128MB=65GB, which is better than Blu-Ray, and nowhere near as fragile.
And that's on their current process, which is apparently a blend of 130nm and 150nm. Wait until they shrink that down a bit.
So yeah, don't work to overcome it, work to deal effectively with what can amount to major, permanent culture shock. NTs probably aren't going away any time soon.
I could have chosen to remain antisocial in and beyond high school. That's what I did in elementary school. But I chose to overcome that barrier, and I'll tell you that having local friends is worlds better than just having friends online.
My biological father, on the other hand, has always chosen to be antisocial, and never developed decent social skills. He doesn't think you need friends so much as contacts. If all he wants out of life is what he has, then he's right.
I don't think he's happy, though. He lives out of a trailer, living off the disability checks for his wife and son (my half-brother) along with the meager amount that his telecom business makes. At one point, he blamed me and my brother for his situation, saying he'd expected us to work for his business. Maybe he still does...I haven't talked to him since Christmas.
In my earlier post, I meant to say that Aspergers is something those afflicted should work to overcome. The work's hard, but it gets easier after a while. And the rewards are something you don't realize you never had until you get them.
Actually, I was later hospitalized for a suicide attempt. They medicated the symptoms they saw while I was under observation. A few years later, I was diagnosed with Aspergers.
Would you consider medicating for irrational anger 'casual use' of medication? How about obsessive-compulsive disorder?
If someone spend 20 years learning to control their anger, that's 20 years they haven't been as productive as they could have. If someone spends 20 years learning to control impulses to scrape off scabs, that's 20 years without making lasting connections with other people.
Considering the party was the same night as commencement, (That's the ceremony for graduates) I'd say it turned out pretty well. Several of my coworkers either graduated or were asked to attend a friend's graduation.
...parents and doctors not accepting anything less than complete 100% normality...Not everybody needs medication, my daughter and I don't.
I think you partially answered yourself already, but let me explain.
Aspergers isn't likely to be the only thing a person has. And you're not capable of making the decision as to whether or not you have anything that should be medicated. A psychiatrist is the one who makes that call.
Once in a great while, I decide I don't need to take my Risperdal any more. So I go a day or two without it. The anger issues I deal with during that period, and the memory of how much saner the world was while I was on the medication, convince me to resume taking it.
That's an easy attitude to adopt. One doesn't feel disabled, even when everyone's telling you you are.
It took me a semester of college where I took on too many classes to realize I couldn't always handle the load some of my friends take on. Now I typically take a class whose material I'm already very familiar with, in addition to classes that go toward my degree. (Yes, I chose a degree path that isn't exactly in-line with my current knowledge base.)
For instance, I've taken UNIX and computer servicing classes every semester recently. It offers a nice break from the classes that keep me otherwise busy. Well, except for that the computer servicing class turned out to be a double-speed course, equating to twice the lec/lab time than a normal 2-credit class.
In kindergarten, I was diagnosed with ADHD, and put on Ritalin. Medications changed, but I wasn't diagnosed with Asperger's until high school. Development of social skills went a lot faster after that, once the social workers knew what they were dealing with.
Get him to talk with someone capable of making a diagnosis. Then medication and a psychologist. Believe me, it's all important.
Most of what I understand about social interaction was learned by observation in high school, which is typically relatively late in human physical development. On the other hand, I had a mother who pushed me to learn it. As an independent adult, your friend is going to need to depend on self-motivation to get better.
Every now and then, someone around here makes a prick of themselves caricaturing people with Asperger's. I try to give them a taste of a successful individual with it.
I may not have had friends up to high school, but there were people I could get along with there. My condition was finally diagnosed in high school, giving social workers a decent therapy angle. And I turned out OK. I've learned to recognize body language and social nuance. I'm not perfect at it, but most of it is second-nature by now.
At Grand Rapids Community College, where I work and study, I've made dozens of friends. My teachers like me, my boss likes me, my coworkers like me, most of my classmates like me, and I'm Vice President of the Computer Club.
Together with a friend, I organized an end-of-semester bowling party that took place this past Friday. All my coworkers and their friends and family were invited. We had 15 people show up, including people who would refuse to bowl under any circumstances. (One way I got people to show up was by promising them they couldn't do any worse on the lanes than I did. And I was almost right...one person tied my score.)
For a Computer Club event, I've taken the lead in organizing a LAN Party to take place July 14. I'm going to meet with one of managers in IT in order to address security concerns and see about using campus machines for people who don't want to bring their own. (Slashdotters welcome...there will be non-student parking.)
And I'm hoping to transfer to Michigan Tech next fall.
In summary: I may be a geek, but I'm a popular geek. With a lot of work and support, some people with Asperger's can be successful on the conventional route. We don't all have to drop out and make our millions by coming up with the Next Big Thing.
Oh, yeah: Make sure you enter in accurate info. They've never sold it off, so you don't need to worry. Email me to get validated. That'll give you a few days to try the system out...then consider paying via the Paypal link on their front page...
I used to volunteer there as the phone tech...they let me retain the access to validate new users.
If you even bothered to read the post, you'd see that this treatment has prevented tumor growth.
That's certainly positive evidence, if not proof. Used in combination with treatments like chemo, you've got a good regimen.
Normally, the idea of chemo is to hopefully kill cancer cells faster than they're being produced. Something like this could halt the production, allowing for much faster elimination of cancerous mass, and possibly even a reduction in chemo dose.
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A CD/DVD's data area is around 10,000mm^2. That's enough area for 343 of these chips at their current size. 343*128MB=42.875GB
A better arrangement would be to make a 5" (127mm) square cartridge to fit in the same stackable region as a 5" circle. That gives you 520 of these chips. 520*128MB=65GB, which is better than Blu-Ray, and nowhere near as fragile.
And that's on their current process, which is apparently a blend of 130nm and 150nm. Wait until they shrink that down a bit.
Data density in the world has just gone up.
The technology dictates write-only. Even with a sliding write window ala multisession CDs, it wouldn't be useful as a cache.
Try 10 * (1 byte / 8 bits), or one movie. GB is different from Gb.
I could do with seeing one of the fortold DVD-based Linux LiveCDs expanded even further and put on a read-only USB stick.
Oh, and it's OTP? You mean, like CD-Rs and DVD-Rs?
So yeah, don't work to overcome it, work to deal effectively with what can amount to major, permanent culture shock. NTs probably aren't going away any time soon.
I could have chosen to remain antisocial in and beyond high school. That's what I did in elementary school. But I chose to overcome that barrier, and I'll tell you that having local friends is worlds better than just having friends online.
My biological father, on the other hand, has always chosen to be antisocial, and never developed decent social skills. He doesn't think you need friends so much as contacts. If all he wants out of life is what he has, then he's right.
I don't think he's happy, though. He lives out of a trailer, living off the disability checks for his wife and son (my half-brother) along with the meager amount that his telecom business makes. At one point, he blamed me and my brother for his situation, saying he'd expected us to work for his business. Maybe he still does...I haven't talked to him since Christmas.
In my earlier post, I meant to say that Aspergers is something those afflicted should work to overcome. The work's hard, but it gets easier after a while. And the rewards are something you don't realize you never had until you get them.
Actually, I was later hospitalized for a suicide attempt. They medicated the symptoms they saw while I was under observation. A few years later, I was diagnosed with Aspergers.
How do you define 'casual'?
Would you consider medicating for irrational anger 'casual use' of medication? How about obsessive-compulsive disorder?
If someone spend 20 years learning to control their anger, that's 20 years they haven't been as productive as they could have. If someone spends 20 years learning to control impulses to scrape off scabs, that's 20 years without making lasting connections with other people.
Considering the party was the same night as commencement, (That's the ceremony for graduates) I'd say it turned out pretty well. Several of my coworkers either graduated or were asked to attend a friend's graduation.
It's a mental illness. Of course it's in my head.
That doesn't mean it requires work to overcome.
...parents and doctors not accepting anything less than complete 100% normality...Not everybody needs medication, my daughter and I don't.
I think you partially answered yourself already, but let me explain.
Aspergers isn't likely to be the only thing a person has. And you're not capable of making the decision as to whether or not you have anything that should be medicated. A psychiatrist is the one who makes that call.
Once in a great while, I decide I don't need to take my Risperdal any more. So I go a day or two without it. The anger issues I deal with during that period, and the memory of how much saner the world was while I was on the medication, convince me to resume taking it.
That's an easy attitude to adopt. One doesn't feel disabled, even when everyone's telling you you are.
It took me a semester of college where I took on too many classes to realize I couldn't always handle the load some of my friends take on. Now I typically take a class whose material I'm already very familiar with, in addition to classes that go toward my degree. (Yes, I chose a degree path that isn't exactly in-line with my current knowledge base.)
For instance, I've taken UNIX and computer servicing classes every semester recently. It offers a nice break from the classes that keep me otherwise busy. Well, except for that the computer servicing class turned out to be a double-speed course, equating to twice the lec/lab time than a normal 2-credit class.
That's all fine, but do you have a girlfriend?
I've had several. The last one became a lesbian, though... (chuckle)
Slashdot comments are a mix of jokes and intellectual discussion, whether or not they're on-topic or even well-informed.
People don't usually ask about the weather or kids in the main threads. (Journal entry discussions are another matter entirely.)
Trust me. You don't want the school burgers. At least, not the ones from the vending machines.
The ones from the cafeteria aren't bad.
They're irresponsible. If they think they have Aspergers, they need to see about diagnosis. Maybe they do, maybe they don't.
If they do, there's things they can do about it.
Wow...I applaud you and envy your son.
In kindergarten, I was diagnosed with ADHD, and put on Ritalin. Medications changed, but I wasn't diagnosed with Asperger's until high school. Development of social skills went a lot faster after that, once the social workers knew what they were dealing with.
Get him to talk with someone capable of making a diagnosis. Then medication and a psychologist. Believe me, it's all important.
Most of what I understand about social interaction was learned by observation in high school, which is typically relatively late in human physical development. On the other hand, I had a mother who pushed me to learn it. As an independent adult, your friend is going to need to depend on self-motivation to get better.
Every now and then, someone around here makes a prick of themselves caricaturing people with Asperger's. I try to give them a taste of a successful individual with it.
I may not have had friends up to high school, but there were people I could get along with there. My condition was finally diagnosed in high school, giving social workers a decent therapy angle. And I turned out OK. I've learned to recognize body language and social nuance. I'm not perfect at it, but most of it is second-nature by now.
At Grand Rapids Community College, where I work and study, I've made dozens of friends. My teachers like me, my boss likes me, my coworkers like me, most of my classmates like me, and I'm Vice President of the Computer Club.
Together with a friend, I organized an end-of-semester bowling party that took place this past Friday. All my coworkers and their friends and family were invited. We had 15 people show up, including people who would refuse to bowl under any circumstances. (One way I got people to show up was by promising them they couldn't do any worse on the lanes than I did. And I was almost right...one person tied my score.)
For a Computer Club event, I've taken the lead in organizing a LAN Party to take place July 14. I'm going to meet with one of managers in IT in order to address security concerns and see about using campus machines for people who don't want to bring their own. (Slashdotters welcome...there will be non-student parking.)
And I'm hoping to transfer to Michigan Tech next fall.
In summary: I may be a geek, but I'm a popular geek. With a lot of work and support, some people with Asperger's can be successful on the conventional route. We don't all have to drop out and make our millions by coming up with the Next Big Thing.
Oh, yeah: Make sure you enter in accurate info. They've never sold it off, so you don't need to worry. Email me to get validated. That'll give you a few days to try the system out...then consider paying via the Paypal link on their front page...
I used to volunteer there as the phone tech...they let me retain the access to validate new users.
You can still play it. Not free, though. $5/month, if you connect via the Internet.
Nah...that would be quantum mechanics.
...There would be more of them?
I'm in favor of that; Geeks [should] rule!
nanoxxx
:)
I've been getting junk emails on how to cure that. If you let Slashdot show your email unobfuscated, you'd get them, too.
Too late. They've been pushing for popups in another other organ for years.
If you even bothered to read the post, you'd see that this treatment has prevented tumor growth.
That's certainly positive evidence, if not proof. Used in combination with treatments like chemo, you've got a good regimen.
Normally, the idea of chemo is to hopefully kill cancer cells faster than they're being produced. Something like this could halt the production, allowing for much faster elimination of cancerous mass, and possibly even a reduction in chemo dose.